From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 198
Summary:
Has received CD’s book [Forms of flowers]; thanks him for the compliment of the dedication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 and 22 Jan 1878
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (123 and 127)
Summary:
Thanks for AG’s review of Forms of flowers [Am. J. Sci. 3d ser. 15 (1878): 67–73].
Thomas Carlyle’s letter about CD was a forgery.
Gives Hermann Müller’s observations on Valeriana dioica.
Is unsure about function of "bloom"; are glaucous plants more or less common in arid parts of U. S.?
Observations on heliotropism.
Thomas Meehan reports that Linum perenne is self-fertile; CD thinks that he has mistaken the species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 160: 169, DAR 165: 199
Summary:
AG’s review of Joseph Cook ["Lectures on biology", New Englander 37: 100–13].
Encourages CD to work at heliotropism.
Thinks Thomas Meehan is as "rattle-brained" as Joseph Cook.
[A damaged fragment cut from this letter is pinned to 11051.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 Feb [1878]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (129)
Summary:
Heterostyly in Linum perenne. Believes the American form may be a distinct species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (124)
Summary:
Climbing plants.
Requests seeds of Echinocystis lobata for Hugo de Vries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (125)
Summary:
Requests seeds of Ipomoea and Megarrhiza for observations on seedling growth.
Is rereading MS of Movement in plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 200
Summary:
Will try to get Ipomoea and Megarrhiza seeds for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 Dec 1879
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (130a)
Summary:
Thanks for AG’s trouble about the seeds. Is curious to see their germination and the early seedling growth.
Asks for cotton seeds, as he observes odd movements of the cotyledon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project